Andie Grande

I’m a visual artist and lecturer on Environmental Art. In my work I’m currently exploring the aesthetics of organic fibre and refuse synthetic fibre.
Conducting workshops and lectures on Art and Environment to environmental science students I was naturally led to consider 'junk' materials as something to celebrate and to showcase these for their inherent virtues beyond mere usefulness.
I hope to share with the viewer the beauty of bonding with materials we tend to disregard and foster an organic aesthetic. I’m fascinated by the juxtaposition of junk synthetic produce bags with sisal wrapping string. By this I’m marvelled at how a parallel ecology comes to the foreground.
Recycling junk for the mere sake of recycling is not enough. I strongly feel that praising matter for its own sake is more fulfilling, and art is the best way of looking at discarded materials as a resource for creation. In considering environmental issues it's important to me to reconnect to our surroundings: the material world is the springboard of evolution, where I can enact the attempt to “love matter as myself”. As I shape matter, I myself am being shaped. The style is abstract and yet tactile. I like the materiality of humble materials.

1979 – 1982 – a three- year period hands-on training in the visual arts at the ADAC workshops provided by the Paris City Council.
1977 - Graduated in The Higher Diploma of Teaching (HDTS) Arts and Literature from Melbourne University - Australia

Solo Shows
2018 AgroParisTech – Paris 2017 AgroParisTech – Paris
2015 Centre Culturel Franco-Bolivien – Paris
2013 Centre culturel Franco-Bolivien – Paris
2002 Artistry Gallery – Melbourne- Australia
2000 Victorian Artists Society – Melbourne- Australia
1999 Marché Saint Quentin – Paris
1998 Le Grenier à Sel – La Bouille – Normandy – France
1998 Victorian Artists Society – Melbourne – Australia
1998 Galerie Art Service – Rouen – France
1997 Le Grenier à Sel – La Bouille – Normandy – France

Group Exhibitions
2021 The fibery art gallery - Paris
2020 Fondation Villa Datris – Isle sur la Sorgue- France
2019 The Fibery art gallery - Paris - France 2016 Artsyshark – Artist of the Month (December) Web platform
2016 AgroParisTech – Paris - France
2012 Galerie Guillet – Paris - France
1999 Fondation Quintas das Cruzadas – Sintra - Portugal
1999 Salon des Artistes Français – Paris – France
1998 Salon des Artistes Français – Paris – France
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